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In a 1992 essay in Sight & Sound, B. Ruby Rich coined a type of “Queer Cinema” described by this adjective, which is exemplified by Todd Haynes’s film Poison. For 10 points each:

[10e] What adjective appears in the names of both an auteur-driven Hollywood movement of the 1970s and an experimental French movement whose films include Breathless?

ANSWER: new [or nouvelle; accept New Hollywood or French New Wave or Nouvelle Vague]

[10h] Rich’s essay cites this director’s queer film The Living End, which preceded his Teenage Apocalypse trilogy. Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred in this Japanese-American director’s film Mysterious Skin.

ANSWER: Gregg Araki

[10m] Rich praised My Own Private Idaho, which starred Keanu Reeves and an actor with this surname as hustlers. In a 2012 film, an actor with this surname played Freddie Quell, who joins Lancaster Dodd’s cult “The Cause.”

ANSWER: Phoenix [or Bottom; accept River Phoenix or Joaquin Phoenix or River Jude Bottom or Joaquin Rafael Bottom] (The latter film is The Master.)

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	75%	50%	50%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	16.00	80%	50%	30%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	75%	75%	50%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	88%	38%	25%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	6	16.67	100%	33%	33%
UK	Main Site	Y	11	13.64	82%	36%	18%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	88%	63%	38%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

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Stanford B	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
UC Santa Barbara	UCSD B	10	10	10	30
Brock	Simon Fraser	10	10	10	30
Guelph	UBC B	10	10	10	30
Carleton University	McGill A	10	0	10	20
McGill B	Toronto G	0	0	0	0
Ottawa	McMaster A	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	Waterloo A	10	0	0	10
Toronto E	Waterloo B	10	0	10	20
McMaster B	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	0	0
UBC A	Queen's	10	10	0	20
Western C	Toronto C	10	0	0	10
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	10	0	0	10
Central Florida C	Florida A	10	10	10	30
Florida C	Florida B	10	0	0	10
Michigan C	CWRU A	10	0	0	10
Michigan State	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan A	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Pittsburgh	10	10	10	30
Berkeley D	Stanford A	0	0	0	0
UCSD C	UC Irvine	0	0	0	0
UCLA B	UCLA A	10	10	10	30
UCSD A	Arizona State	10	0	0	10
Chicago B	Indiana C	10	0	0	10
Northwestern B	Chicago A	10	0	0	10
Illinois B	Notre Dame B	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Indiana B	10	10	10	30
Northwestern D	Illinois A	0	0	0	0
Carleton College	Washington A	10	0	0	10
Washington B	Claremont	0	0	0	0
Iowa State	Minnesota A	0	0	0	0
Missouri B	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	Notre Dame A	10	0	0	10
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	0	0	10	10
Texas B	Texas A	10	0	10	20
WashU B	Alabama B	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	0	10
Bruin	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Louisville B	10	10	10	30
Kentucky	Louisville A	10	10	10	30
WashU A	Alabama A	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Chicago D	10	10	10	30
Purdue B	Chicago E	10	0	0	10
Cambridge A	Bristol	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh A	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Edinburgh B	Montpellier	10	0	0	10
Imperial B	LSE	10	0	0	10
Imperial C	Warwick B	0	0	0	0
Manchester	Oxford A	10	0	10	20
UCL	Southampton A	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Warwick A	0	0	0	0
Southampton B	Cambridge C	10	0	0	10
Cardiff	City St. George's	10	10	10	30
Binghamton B	Cornell C	10	0	0	10
Penn State	Cornell B	10	10	10	30
RIT	Cornell A	10	0	10	20
Georgetown	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	NYU C	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	Swarthmore	10	0	10	20
Maryland B	Columbia C	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Vassar	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
Catholic	Rutgers B	0	0	10	10
Durham	Birmingham	10	0	0	10